A high GDP isn’t necessarily indicative of the general population’s well-being, which is the metric that should matter most ...

Disposable income inequality in the UK, as measured by the Gini coefficient, did not statistically significantly change between financial year ending (FYE) 2023 and FYE 2024, decreasing by 0.2 ...

A significant portion of agricultural land does not have title deeds.

According to a 2020 census, on average the life expectancy for women in Okinawa is 87.44 years, while men live on average to 80.27 years. The Okinawan diet consists mainly of eating foods that are ...

Singapore’s Gini coefficient, a measure of economic inequality, was 78.8% in 2022, lower than the world level of 88.3% and India’s 82.5% but higher than China’s 70.9%. A higher Gini ...

Atrial fibrillation (AFib) can affect life expectancy due to factors that include age, underlying health conditions, race, and how this common cardiac arrhythmia—or abnormal heart rhythm— is treated.

How long you live depends on where you live, new research suggests. Americans’ life expectancy increased throughout the 20th century, although in some states, particularly in the South, ...

In recent decades, remarkable advancements in medicine, technology, and public health awareness have led to a significant increase in global life expectancy. However, only a select group of countries ...

To quantify and compare economic inequality in different places, at different points in history, the researchers used the variable distributions of house sizes at more than 1000 settlements to ...

Two oystercatchers that have outlived the species' average life expectancy by some 30 years have been discovered by bird surveyors. In February, bird recorders from the Wash Wader Research Group ...

Life expectancy in Polk County is more than two years shorter than the statewide average — 76.2 years, compared with 78.6 for Florida as a whole. That gap is one of the key things the Florida ...